In order to stimulate work in the area of artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level of education, SAIS has created a special yearly award for the best Master’s thesis (examensarbete) in the area of artificial intelligence. The winner will be awarded travel funds of 5000SEK, and is expected to present the winning contribution in connection with the SAIS workshop 2019.

To nominate a Master’s Thesis for the award, the following rules apply:

The thesis is in one of the main areas of artificial intelligence research.

The thesis has been presented officially during the period of January 1, 2018 – January 31, 2019.

An electronic copy of the thesis (PDF) and a short written motivation by the nominator should be sent to mthprize@sais.se, include the terms “SAIS” and “Master’s Thesis award” in the subject line, no later than February 22ndMarch 1st, 2019. The nomination should include a short motivation why the thesis should be selected as the winner, and state its contributions to AI.

The nominating person must be a member of SAIS, but does not have to be the official examiner or primary supervisor.

Only one thesis nomination per nominating person is permitted.

The master thesis project has to be conducted by a student registered at a Swedish university or other higher education establishment in Sweden, and/or presented in Sweden.

The SAIS board will review the nominated Master’s theses and determine a winner based on factors such as novelty, thoroughness, readability, scientific value and relevance to artificial intelligence, both with respect to research and to potential applications. The decision by the SAIS board will be final. The date and location of the SAIS workshop where the winner will present the thesis is still to be determined.

Fredrik Heintz – President of SAIS
Eva Blomqvist – Board member of SAIS

]]>The SAIS AI Master’s Thesis Award 2018 – Call for nominationshttp://www.sais.se/blog/2018/01/sais-ai-masters-thesis-award-2018-call-nominations/
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:16:45 +0000http://www.sais.se/blog/?p=775*** Nomination deadline extended until March 8th *** In order to stimulate work in the area of artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level of education, SAIS has created a special yearly award for the best Master’s thesis (examensarbete) in the … Continue reading →

In order to stimulate work in the area of artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level of education, SAIS has created a special yearly award for the best Master’s thesis (examensarbete) in the area of artificial intelligence. The winner will be awarded travel funds of 5000SEK, and is expected to present the winning contribution in connection with the SAIS yearly meeting in July 2018.

To nominate a Master’s Thesis for the award, the following rules apply:

The thesis is in one of the main areas of artificial intelligence research.

The thesis has been presented officially during the period of January 1, 2017 – January 31, 2018.

An electronic copy of the thesis (PDF) and a short written motivation by the nominator should be sent to mthprize@sais.se, include the terms “SAIS” and “Master’s Thesis award” in the subject line, no later than February 22nd, 2018. The nomination should include a short motivation why the thesis should be selected as the winner, and state its contributions to AI.

The nominating person must be a member of SAIS, but does not have to be the official examiner or primary supervisor.

Only one thesis nomination per nominating person is permitted.

The master thesis project has to be conducted by a student registered at a Swedish university or other higher education establishment in Sweden, and/or presented in Sweden.

The SAIS board will review the nominated Master’s theses and determine a winner based on factors such as novelty, thoroughness, readability, scientific value and relevance to artificial intelligence, both with respect to research and to potential applications. The decision by the SAIS board will be final. This year there is no separate SAIS Workshop, instead there will be a session at IJCAI-ECAI in Stockholm where the thesis work will be presented and we will have the SAIS yearly meeting.

Fredrik Heintz – President of SAIS
Eva Blomqvist – Board member of SAIS

]]>SAIS Organizes IJCAI-ECAI-18 in Stockholm July 13-19 2018http://www.sais.se/blog/2017/08/sais-organizes-ijcai-ecai-18-stockholm-july-13-19-2018/
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:00:30 +0000http://www.sais.se/blog/?p=761The Swedish AI Society is proud to be the host of the first ever joint IJCAI-ECAI which will be held in Stockholm July 13-19 2018. IJCAI-ECAI-18 is also part of the Federated AI Meeting which includes AAMAS, ICML, ICCBR, IJCAI-ECAI … Continue reading →

]]>The Swedish AI Society is proud to be the host of the first ever joint IJCAI-ECAI which will be held in Stockholm July 13-19 2018. IJCAI-ECAI-18 is also part of the Federated AI Meeting which includes AAMAS, ICML, ICCBR, IJCAI-ECAI and SoCS.

]]>The SAIS board is happy to award Thomas Rosenstatter, Högskolan i Halmstad, the 2017 SAIS Master’s Thesis Award, with the following motivation:

The award goes to Thomas Rosenstatter for his thesis entitled “Modelling the Level of Trust in a Cooperative Automated Vehicle Control System”. The thesis introduces a trust system that allows an autonomous vehicle, in this case a car, to make more reliable and robust decisions by taking into account current information about its context. The system evaluates the current situation and generates a trust index, indicating the level of trust in the environment, the vehicle itself, and other vehicles surrounding it. This work was partly evaluated as part of the winning team in the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2016. The thesis addresses a topic that is timely and of high practical relevance in today’s AI community. The thesis is well written and has the potential of both impacting future research in the field, and practical applications. Presentation of the thesis at the SAIS workshop will surely create some interesting discussions.

The 30th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS 2017) will take place in Karlskrona, Sweden on May 15-16, 2017. The SAIS workshop provides an ideal forum for contacts among AI researchers and practitioners in Sweden and neighboring countries, as well as for establishing links with related research disciplines and industry.

]]>The SAIS AI Master’s Thesis Award 2017 – Call for nominationshttp://www.sais.se/blog/2016/12/sais-best-ai-masters-thesis-award-2017/
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:01:55 +0000http://www.sais.se/blog/?p=731In order to stimulate work in the area of artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level of education, SAIS has created a special yearly award for the best Master’s thesis (examensarbete) in the area of artificial intelligence. The winner will be … Continue reading →

]]>In order to stimulate work in the area of artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level of education, SAIS has created a special yearly award for the best Master’s thesis (examensarbete) in the area of artificial intelligence. The winner will be awarded travel funds of 5000SEK, and is expected to attend the SAIS workshop to present the winning contribution.

To nominate a Master’s Thesis for the award, the following rules apply:

The thesis is in one of the main areas of artificial intelligence research.

The thesis has been presented officially during the period of January 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017.

An electronic copy of the thesis (PDF) and a short written motivation by the nominator should be sent to mthprize@sais.se, include the terms “SAIS” and “Master’s Thesis award” in the subject line, no later than February 5th, 2017. The nomination should include a short motivation why the thesis should be selected as the winner, and state its contributions to AI.

The nominating person must be a member of SAIS, but does not have to be the official examiner or primary supervisor.

Only one thesis nomination per nominating person is permitted.

The master thesis project has to be conducted by a student registered at a Swedish university or other higher education establishment in Sweden, and/or presented in Sweden.

The SAIS board will review the nominated Master’s theses and determine a winner based on factors such as novelty, thoroughness, readability, scientific value and relevance to artificial intelligence, both with respect to research and to potential applications. The decision by the SAIS board will be final. The selected winner will be announced in time for the 2017 SAIS workshop, where the winner will be expected to present their work.

]]>Erik Sandewall at Linköping University was awarded the 2016 IJCAI Distinguished Service Awardhttp://www.sais.se/blog/2016/07/erik-sandewall-linkoping-university-awarded-2016-ijcai-distinguished-service-award/
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 17:30:09 +0000http://www.sais.se/blog/?p=649The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the IJCAI Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and service to the field during their careers. Previous recipients have been Bernard Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), Donald … Continue reading →

At the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-16, the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award was given to Erik Sandewall, Professor of Computer Science (retired) at the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University. Professor Sandewall is recognized for his substantial contributions, as well as his extensive service to the field of Artificial Intelligence throughout his career. He is one of the founders of IJCAI and he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Artificial Intelligence Journal for many years and made significant contributions to the success of the journal and to the wider dissemination of AI into the scientific community.

AI debate: Society’s AI issues in relation to media/journalism
At this event, the conversation will be about how politics, journalism and society at large is affected by artificial intelligence (AI). Dialogue and conversation are created in the public sphere where people meet and share thoughts and opinions. But how will politics, journalism and society at large be affected by AI’s entry on the scene?

Expanded description of the social question (Society’s AI issues)
AI becomes increasingly more intelligent. Already today AI is creating basis for reports, articles and news reports faster and more accurately than any human can handle. What happens when robots and programs generates a new kind of insight? How are our values, our ethics changing and what are they? And how will the public debate? Meet some of Sweden’s foremost connoisseurs of AI’s discuss AI’s impact on society and journalism and their thoughts about the future.

Also meet the NAO robot. He is 4 years old, born in France and raised in Sweden. He likes football, cooking and doing research on robots. Presented by Fredrik Löfgren, robot developer and Fredrik Heintz, associate professor of computer science at Linköping University and chairman of the Swedish AI Society.

The award goes to Frej Knutar for his thesis entitled “Automatic Generation of Assembly Schedules For a Dual-Arm Robot Using Constraint Programming”. The thesis is well-written and of high quality, and it presents a highly relevant practical application of constraint-based models for the task sequencing of a two-armed robotic manufacturing cell. The solution is guaranteed to avoid arm collisions. It is also cyclic, meaning that one arm can start the next assembly while the other arm i finishing the previous one, which results in a high throughput. The solution is related to a real-world problem where such scheduling is currently most often done manually, which requires highly skilled engineers and takes anywhere from days to weeks to complete, while the proposed solution will complete within a matter of hours.